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CML launches $25m corporate bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
Finance and employment services company CML group has launched a $25 million unrated bond issue targeting private investors, self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and advisers. The corporate bond issue is arranged by FIIG Securities and has a minimum initial ...

Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... businesses that, if confident about their prospects, have the collective ability to boost national economic growth, employment and productivity. Unfortunately, general pessimism about the economy and government initiatives continues to stifle their business ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... were good. They'll see a brightening outlook for the labour market. The ANZ job ads index - a leading indicator of employment - rebounded by a strong 2.3% in April to their highest level in two and a half years.A This more than reversed the previous ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... claims for the week ended 25 April fell to their lowest level in 15-years - suggesting an improvement in the official employment report for April; Consumer spending gained 0.4% in March (3.0% year-on-year) following a 0.2% increase in the previous month. ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... or that "Private consumption as a whole has remained resilient against the background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation..." Not so. Latest data shows the annual decline in industrial production accelerated to 2.1% in February ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... 'twas a wonderful set of numbers. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that some 37,700 Australians found employment in March - more than double the expected 15,000 addition and follows the 41,900 blokes and shielas that gained employment ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... physicist Neils Bohr said, "prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" and besides, I don't want to ruin my employment op at "The Fund" someday... just in case. But back to the point. This rant is all the FTSE-100 index reaching record ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... latest US jobs figures - delivered after they've concluded their tete-a-tete - might give them pause for a re-think. US employment disappointed expectations, increasing by just 126,000 in March against expectations for a 247,000 addition and the lowest ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... concern du' jour over the 'coming soon' federal funds rate lift-off or indications that the US economy might be slowing - employment disappointed expectations, increasing by just 126,000 in March against expectations for a 247,000 addition and the lowest ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... Richard Fischer's comment that the Fed should promptly start raising interest rates before the economy reaches full employment....and then it got back up, to a high of US$0.7870 last week (24 March) - despite the odds for an April rate cut firming up ...